OPINION
Delving into the Subconscious Spectrum of the Rainbow
Red… Orange… Yellow… Green… Blue… Violet… Pride Month is...
Allyship in a Layered Homophobic Environment
“I support them.” What does it take to be worthy of being called an ally? Right. The month of...
Espejo will Win but That’s Not Enough
As the third day of the ECA General Elections wrapped, the BEACON released an exit poll to assess...
There Will Be No Funeral for This Consejo
All politicians want to leave a legacy. Sometimes, they are seen as great statesmen who stand up...
Marcos: Promises are Meant to be Broken
Someone promised I can buy a kilo of rice for 20 pesos. What happened? It’s easy to characterize...
The Huge Leap Effect
Inconsiderate is the fitting term to describe the...
Blindly leading the blind
Here’s the thing with the recent elections: if the Liberal Arts Academic Organization (LAAO)...
The ten votes: AELECOM’s failure
Frankly, two facts dictated the August 25 Special Elections. The first is that more than half of...
When they said change is coming, did they mean one week late?
It is a painful irony that we only try to stop criminals when they’ve already managed to murder...
The cost friendships bear for politics
One cannot deny that the campaign season for the 2022 National and Local Elections has commenced...
Big Bad Monster
Monsters come in all shapes and sizes, and as we grow up, each one of us comes to have a different...
Si Optimum Pride Oh
Panlibangan man o hindi, malawak ang naging impluwensiya ng internet memes sa ating sariling...
Larong Jackstone
Tila isang laro ng jackstone ang kalagayan ng Pilipinas sa kalagitnaan ng isang pandemya. Sa...
An Alternate Universe of “What Ifs”
In the many worlds of what-ifs, every decision I take in this world creates a new universe: one for...
The New Truth
In an era where misinformation and conspiracy theories seem to dominate, a carefully crafted...
The Unpopular Dreamer
The Pussycat Dolls once sang, “When I grow up I wanna be famous, I wanna be a star, I wanna be in...
Are we face-to-face class ready?
After almost two years, students are finally returning on track as different universities eye the...
I is for Independent…?
Students now are more exhausted than ever. Elsewhere, there has been an increasing number of calls...
How Hard is CPALE
The fact that graduating from the BS Accountancy course is a battle enough to tear accounting...
If AdZU was Tita Connie, then it surely has its Teddie
Who isn’t familiar with 4 Sisters and a Wedding? It portrayed the typical Filipino family with...
All Crammed Up
Our memories hate it when we cram large pieces of information in a short period of time and this...
uNprOFEsSioNaLisM: the blue bird on trial
Heated debates on being vocal versus being silent on certain issues is a common sight—especially...
Gone are the Pabibo people
Anonymous John Doe resigned from his post in El Consejo Atenista (ECA)—and no one in the student...
Cannot Be Reached… Kinda
The headline isn’t probably a newsflash to many. Over the years, ECA has always been perceived to...
Transparency: If ECA were a car
If El Consejo Atenista were a car, surely the student body would hope its windows were transparent...
“Ano bang ambag mo?”
As citizens, nothing beats the feeling of being able to vote for someone who’s worthy of your...
Data Cost of Data Surveys
Let’s face it—students like us won’t fill out surveys unless: (1) it is required, (2) someone...
Could it get any worse?
It isn’t much of a shock when we say that the Philippines has a government indifferent to its...
If Only Duterte’s Administration Heeds on Warnings
Perhaps it’s the fast, as they call it, internet capacity of the Philippines which made...
Police Brutality: Wake Up and Smell the Coffee
“If you had the power to do anything you want, what would you do?” I hear this question so...
Cry but in PPE
On Wednesday last week, pictures of a mother wrapped in air-resistant PPE, head covered all over,...
PH in Chaos—Can VP Leni Bring Back A Unified Country?
Cheers to five months’ worth of quarantine! There is a twisted belief of the government...
Selective Empathy
We had a lot of “George Floyd” in our soil, yet only a few bothered to care. The...